Chickens Coming Home to Roost
ACORN is riddled with rot. This has been obvious to most people for a long time. But when they started registering as voters the likes of Mork N. Mindy, Weezey Jefferson, Oscar Meyer, Mortimer Snerd, and Professor Poopypants—all as Democrats—the Feds got suspicious. Everyone knows Snerd was a Libertarian.
More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
The group — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN — already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.
ACORN… now where have I heard of that organization before?
“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead — and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns.
And you thought I was kidding about Oscar Meyer.
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN’s political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama’s campaign told CNN that it “is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process,” and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
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Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the “fake pile” for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.
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“We have no idea what the motive behind it is,” she said. “It’s just overwhelming to us.”
Here’s a hint, ma’am. Obama worked for ACORN in his “community organizer” days.
Instead of observing snidely that the GOP always questions fraudulent Democratic voter registration, the reporter (and all news organizations) might instead wonder why Edward R. Murrow and Howard K. Smith are listed as active voters in Chicago’s 8th ward.
atlanta1 said,
October 10, 2008 @ 6:55 am
this is just another example of the great obama this is where obama was an community organizer then he gives them 800000$ and suprise suprise they do what theyve been doing all along even when obama was with them faking votes hell it probably how he became a senator that and his support from people like ayers why arent they talking about how obama donated government money to a hospital where his wife later that month was brought in as chairwoman of the board he is corrupt top to bottom but at least he looks good when he lies
Jacki said,
October 10, 2008 @ 7:11 am
I really feel it was all about money, if you get paid for each person you register then you know if you fake it your get more money, I truly don’t feel that it was a democrat issue. I am not sure who I will vote for but this issue caught my eye.Lets not jump the gun on the democrats , lets look clearly.
BB Chicago said,
October 10, 2008 @ 7:29 am
“Beginning in the mid-1980s, Obama worked with ACORN and Project Vote. In 1995 Obama sued, on behalf of ACORN, for the implementation of the Motor Voter law in Illinois. (Jim Edgar, the Republican Governor of Illinois, opposed the law because he believed that allowing voters to register using only a postcard would breed widespread fraud.) ACORN later invited Obama to help train its staff. Moreover, Obama eventually would sit on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which gave a number of sizable grants to ACORN. In April 2007 The Nation reported, “Today Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side [of Chicago].”
SEE: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/acorn5.html
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 10, 2008 @ 7:34 am
You may well be right, Jacki, but if you figured it out, why didn’t ACORN? Whether intentional and conspiratorial, or an unintended consequence (unintended my ass), the results are the same. Colonel Sanders and the Burger King are not valid voters.
j salerno said,
October 10, 2008 @ 8:16 am
What a lot of rot. The same thing happens whenever people are paid to register voters; some of them are lazy and cheat. If Col. Sanders and Mortimer Snerd could somehow get through the election board certification process, materialize in the parking lot, show their magically created IDs and/or registration cards. and vote for Obama, Or perhaps you think the Obama campaign plans to fly the Dallas Cowboys into Nevada to vote for him.
It is pretty clear to me that Mortimer is not going to show up, but maybe some of you are ‘faith-based’ idiots and believe he’ll crawl out of a hole and come slogging into town, unless of course he sees his shadow, in which case we’ll have four more years of Bush. Wise up: this isn’t election fraud, its some scattered individuals defrauding the organizations that paid them to register legitimate voters. It’s now being used as a smokescreen for efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters again.
What would YOU do if you were a black man and on election day you turned up to vote and were told by some pin head who had stopped you from voting in the last election that there was something wrong with your registration again, or you had the same name as a felon (’Jack Johnson’) and couldn’t vote? When there are huge riots, cities are burned, and people are killed it will be partly your fault for participating in the real election fraud. You are the enablers of the ongoing attempt to suppress legitimate votes.
KHO said,
October 10, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Too j salerno - absentee ballots? No need for us “faith-based” idiots to worry about anyone crawling out of a hole.
Thanks for the threat of “a long hot summer” starting in November if Obama loses.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 10, 2008 @ 9:09 am
J-Sal,
We agree on one thing: we shouldn’t leave it up to the League of Women voters or other “pin heads” (as you so charitably call them) to recognize the flat-out frauds from the fairly registered. It’s not their place to play bouncer at the voting booth.
You claim hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters have been disenfranchised. That sounds like a class action lawsuit to me. So where is it? Pity we have such a shortage of trial lawyers to act on their behalf. I would suggest John Edwards, but he’s got his hands full (I won’t say of whom) right now.
I have a higher opinion of African Americans than you evidently do. I do not expect them to riot, or commit arson or murder, whether Obama wins or loses. Sorry to disappoint, you racist bastard.
j salerno said,
October 11, 2008 @ 8:59 am
Dear Bloodsucker and KHO
I think i would be a racist if I thought they didn’t have the guts to stand up for their rights, slimebags. Maybe you didn’t notice. morons, but there were plenty of lawsuits after the last two elections that didn’t have any significant effect even though there was ample evidence to show that thousands of legitmate voters were turned away from the polls. Maybe you don’t remember the effects of Nixon’s shennanigans, nibelung, but I was in the streets myself and gassed by our criminal leader. Maybe you don’t remember summers in the late 60s when people in the inner cities got fed up, but I do. People in this country can’t be expected to take the illegal actions of the government lying down forever. If you think it’s better to accept being turned away from the voting booth and have another election stolen, I think you are a coward and a hypocrite. You certainly are not an American in the tradition of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin. It was Franklin who supposedly said ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’
Its not going to be a long hot summer if Obama loses, peawits. Its much more immediate. Legal voters are not likely to accept being turned back by state troopers in Florida or other states with a record of voter suppression. Gangs of brown shirts led by misguided people like ex-congressman Sweeney are not going to be able to rule the streets. If you were one of them, I suggest you stay home this year. Legal voters will vote or there will be hell to pay, and if you think that’s a racist demand or a threat I say you are fascists and fooling yourselves.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 11, 2008 @ 10:19 am
Professor Salerno (No, I am not being sarcastic. Our correspondent is an academic, and an accomplished one at that—again, no sarcasm.):
But “bloodsucker”, “slimebags”, “morons”, “nibelung” (nice reach, but watch the Wagnerian anti-Semitic overtones), “coward”, “hypocrite”, “peawits”, “brown shirts”, “fascists”? Do you lecture your students with that mouth?
You flatter us, but we’re not that good. We’re really not.
“Maybe you didn’t notice. morons, but there were plenty of lawsuits after the last two elections that didn’t have any significant effect even though there was ample evidence to show that thousands of legitmate voters were turned away from the polls.”
Do I have to point out the obvious illogic of that assertion? Thousands of legitimate voters turned away, plenty of lawsuits, ample evidence—yet still no significant effect? How can that be? Where can I get me some lawyerin’ like that?
You’ll just have to forgive me (though I don’t expect you will) if I don’t accept your assertions, any of them, whatever they are—it’s hard to keep them straight. I don’t think challenging ACORN’s obvious and admitted voting fraud is racist; I don’t think black people have a right to riot, and I don’t think they will; I don’t see the relevance to the late 60s and Nixon (who was president for only one year in the late 60s).
But I think it’s telling that you do. It seems those were your formative years, central to who you are and what you’ve become, and I don’t quarrel with that. But I went to my share of marches then, too, though I am a few years younger than you; and saw my share of people hauled off to jail. The difference between us is that I see today as nothing like then, however nostalgic some may be for tear gas and rubber bullets. Good times.
To me, it’s telling, too, that your preferred candidate, Barack Obama, is an offspring, in part, of that fellow traveller in those protests of your youth, Bill Ayers. It’s 2008, not 1968; bell bottoms and sideburns may be back in style, but, dear God, let not the politics of that misguided time return.
cantueso said,
October 19, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Colin Powell endorses Obama !
(I have been trying to find the meaning of “chickens coming home to roost”)